AAC Year 7 Ignite the Spark Programme

OGDC Members:
Iskandar bin Hj. Alias
Janet Nuramalina binti Abdullah Shak
Roslan bin Hj. Abd. Rahman
Chang Yew En @ Albert
Ak. Md. Uwais Al-Qarni bin Pg. Hj. Zainal
Nurulain binti Hambali
Hazean Nuruliqma binti Md. Azrin
Md. Hazahin bin Hj. Basrah
Najib bin Abdullah
Abang Adib bin Abang Ali
Md. Nabih Fakhri bin Metussin

Location:
Anthony Abell Collage

Date:
24th January 2009

As we arrived to the school, some 116 AAC year 7 students we already sitting eagerly on the chairs arranged in circles inside the school's hall, impatient to start with the activities suggested by the OGDC staffs. The students were divided into groups of 12, accompanied either by a teacher or a facilitator from OGDC.

After we finished setting up for the activities, the teachers and facilitators went to their respective groups, to take their students' attendance.

The event was commenced with a prayer from an ustaz from AAC. After that, an opening speech was given by Cikgu Rahagi, the principal of AAC. After that, Janet went on introducing the staffs available on that day, followed by a safety briefing.

The event was divided into three sessions, first would be the ice-breaking session, second would be the team-building session and the third will be the motivational talk session.As for the ice-breaking session, the first activity carried out was the 'Remember Your Friends' activity which started within each group and later within 2 groups. The second activity was the so called 'Shoe Game' which also started within each group and later the students made an enormous circle covering the sides of the school hall to play the game.

As the ice-breaking session was over, we had a shot break. The OGDC staffs and teachers had their break in the teachers' conference.

After the break, the second session begins, which is the team-building session. The team-building session also consists of 2 activities. The first one is the 'Word Scavenger Hunt', where the students are given a piece of manila card with missing letters, their task is to communicate with the other groups to find the missing letters and complete the word. The second activity was the 'Tech Challenge: Oil Rig', where the students in each group were asked to build an oil rig out of sheets of old newspaper.

The winner for the Tech Challenge went to Group J; their 'oil rig' was able to withstand 900g with height of 94 cm.

After the completion of the prize giving ceremony by Iskandar Alias, the staffs and the students were allowed to have their lunch, from 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm.

Right after the lunch, the students were gathered once more in the school hall for the third session, which is the Motivational Session. Two motivational speakers from Asia-Pacific Service Learning Centre Hub, Hj. Mahmud Hj. Masron and Ronald Chua were invited for the third session. The talk generally motivates the students to spend more time on thinking about their future and ambitions. In addition, the session was included with several activities carried out by the speakers. At the end of the session, the speakers were presented with souvenirs from AAC.

The programme was ended with a speech by the Deputy Principal, Cikgu Asmah.

Overall, the programme went on smoothly and the students really enjoyed it.

The OGDC staffs present on that day was given Certificates of Appreciation from AAC.

Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Umar Al-Khatab Science Fair

OGDC Members:
Janet Nuramalina binti Abdullah Shak
Chang Yew En @ Albert
Ak. Md. Uwais Al-Qarni bin Pg. Hj. Zainal
Nurulain binti Hambali
Hazean Nuruliqma binti Md. Azrin
Md. Hazahin bin Hj. Basrah
Najib bin Abdullah
Md. Nabih Fakhri bin Metussin

Location:
SM Sayyidina Umar Al-Khatab

Date:
17th January 2009

We rendezvoused in the OGDC 'Gallery' at about 6.30 in the morning, with our exhibits and materials for the activity packed up and ready to go for the long 2 hours drive to the designated location.

We arrived at the scene approximately at 9.00 am. We took about half an hour to completely set up our booth which includes several mind busting puzzles, the shocking 'Finger Tingler' exhibit, the amazing 'Link-Unlink' exhibit, the 'Reaction Tester' exhibit and lastly the famous 'Mind Ball' exhibit.

The event was started off with speeches from the Principal of SM SUA, the Head of Department of Science and the Guest of Honour. At the end of the speeches, the 'gong' was sounded, marking the offical launching of the Science Fair.

Right after the official launching, the OGDC crew went up in front of the crowd to be introduced by Janet. We recieved rounds of applauses, a wonderful moment indeed.

After the "Ice-Breaking" session, Janet welcomed the students to visit our booth. At first, the response from the students was not as ample as we expected it to be as only a handful of the students ever heard about OGDC. However, we did catch most of the students towards the end.

There were several other booths available on that day as well. These include the display presented by several invited guests, such as the 'Jabatan Ukur' and 'Jabatan Kawalan Narkotik'. There were also numerous acitivities conducted by the teachers and students from SM SUA.

At 11.00 am, we invited the entire crowd to take their seats, sit back, relax and enjoy the show put on by Chang Yew En. The Liquid Nitrogen demonstration went on smoothly and loved by the students. Basically, he froze flowers and table tennis balls to temperature of -196 degree centigrade and let the students to have a "feel" of the frozen objects. The demonstration was put to an end by pouring the liquid Nitrogen across the floor of the hall, creating a beautiful and yet mysterious fog-effect.

After a short break, we prepared the space for conducting an activity, the "Tech Challenge: Water Rocket". The introduction on the Tech Challenge was presented by Janet and facilitated by the OGDC crew members.

The students were given half an hour to complete their water-rockets and prepare for the launching at exactly 3.30 pm.

Once their time was up, the students were led to the nearby water source to fill their water rockets with their fuel: water. Then they were brought to the parking zone to launch their water-rockets.

In the end, the group that won the first place is 'Hurricane' from Sekolah Menengah Masin, second place went to 'Sporting Team' from Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Umar Al-Khatab and the third place went to 'SMM1' again from Sekolah Menengah Masin.

At about 4.30 pm, we packed-up our exhibits and went back to OGDC. We were so pleased that everything went out so well.

TAIB Insurance Carnival

Switch It Off in OGDC..

The issue of Global Warming is not something new. The causes, the devastating effects and lastly, the cure or solutions to reduce the effect of Global Warming, have all been presented in several conferences and even taught in schools.

According to the Energy Logbook 2008 from The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, IEEJ, the energy-to-population ratio for Brunei Darussalam is 6934 KWh, one of the highest in Asia, higher than Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and even India.

As we all know, 100% of our electricity that are generated from the power plant are powered by fossil fuels, including natural gas and diesel fuel, which directly contributes to the increasing effect of Global Warming. Hence the only way to sustain the fossil fuels reserves and to slow down the effects of Global Warming is by practicing energy conservation.

Here in Oil and Gas Discovery Centre, we join hand-in-hand to tackle the issue of Global Warming and save our planet by conserving electrical energy by promoting the ‘Switch Off Campaign’.

Mini-posters which acts as reminder, for the staffs and even visitors, are posted all over OGDC to remind everyone to switch off the lights, air-conditioners and other electrical appliances in the offices and even the toilets, when not in used.

The campaign’s main objective is to promote conservation of energy and saving the environment by trimming down the excessive use of electricity.

We would like to encourage people throughout Brunei Darussalam to participate in this campaign and start to conserve energy by all means.

‘That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.’ – Neil Armstrong.